Manasseh
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Hezekiah’s Last Fifteen Years
In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’ ”
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
“Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly and have done what pleases you.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Isaiah had not yet gone out of the inner courtyard when the word of the Lord came to him:
“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.
I will add fifteen years to your life. I will rescue you and this city from the grasp of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’ ”
Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of pressed figs.” So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered.
Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What is the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I will go up to the Lord’s temple on the third day?”
Isaiah said, “This is the sign to you from the Lord that he will do what he has promised: Should the shadow go ahead ten steps or go back ten steps?”
Then Hezekiah answered, “It’s easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, let the shadow go back ten steps.”
So the prophet Isaiah called out to the Lord, and he brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah (; )
Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh became king in his place.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried on the ascent to the tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. His son Manasseh became king in his place.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 20:21
Sennacherib is assassinated, and Assyria conquers Thebes (; ; )
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.
and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every valiant warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.
Manasseh commits idolatry (; ) [possibly sawed Isaiah in half]
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put my name.”
He built altars to all the stars in the sky in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.
He sacrificed his son in the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.
Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: “I will establish my name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
The Lord said through his servants the prophets,
“Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts—worse evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done—and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin,
this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.
I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ”
Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where my name will remain forever.”
He built altars to all the stars in the sky in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.
He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: “I will establish my name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.”
So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.
Manasseh repents and reforms Judah (, ) [cf. -15]
So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
He prayed to him, and the Lord was receptive to his prayer. He granted his request and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the Lord is God.
After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate; he brought it around the Ophel, and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
He built the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it. Then he told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
The song of our fathers.
You are blessed, Lord God of our ancestors, and praiseworthy and highly exalted forever. Blessed be the name of your glory. You are holy and exceedingly praised and highly exalted forever.
You are blessed in the temple of your holy glory and highly praised and highly glorified forever.
You are blessed, you who look into the deep, sitting on the cherubs, and highly praised and exceedingly exalted forever.
You are blessed upon the throne of your kingdom and highly praised and exceedingly exalted forever.
You are blessed in the foundation of heaven and highly praised and highly glorified forever.
Bless the Lord, all the works of the Lord; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O heavens; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O angels of the Lord; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all the waters above the heaven; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all the powers of the Lord; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O sun and moon; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O stars of the heavens; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all rain and dew; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all the spirits; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O fire and heat; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O winter and summer; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O dew and snow; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O night and days; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O light and darkness; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O frost and cold; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O frost and snow; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O lightning and clouds; sing and exalt him forever.
Let the earth bless the Lord; let it sing and let it exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O mountains and hills; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all plants in the earth; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O springs; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O seas and rivers; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O great fish and all those who move in waters; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, all birds of the sky; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O wild animals and all cattle; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O sons of men; sing and exalt him forever.
Let Israel bless the Lord; let it sing and let it exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O priests of the Lord; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O servants of the Lord; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, O spirits and souls of righteousness; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, those who are holy and humbled in their hearts; sing and exalt him forever.
Bless the Lord, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael; sing and exalt him forever.
The prayer of Manasseh.
Lord Almighty, heavenly God of our fathers, of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and their righteous offspring;
you who made the heavens and the earth with all their order,
you who shackled the oceans by the word of your command; who closed off the abyss and sealed it by your awesome and honorable name;
at whom all shudder and tremble from the presence of your power.
Because the magnificence of your glory cannot be endured, and overwhelming is the wrath of your anger upon sinners.
Immeasurable and also unsearchable is the compassion of your promise,
because you are the Lord Most High, compassionate, patient and full of mercy and repenting at the wickedness of humanity.
Therefore, you, O Lord the God of the righteous, did not establish repentance for the righteous— Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the ones who have not sinned against you— rather you established repentance for me, the sinner.
Because I sinned beyond the number of grains of sand by the sea; because my lawless actions multiplied, and I am not worthy to gaze and see the heights of heaven because of the great number of my wrongdoings.
Being bent over by many a chain of iron so that I might reject my sins and I have no release from them because I provoked your anger and practiced evil before you by setting up idols and multiplying my offenses.
And now I bend the knee of my heart, begging kindness from you.
I have sinned, Lord, I have sinned. And my lawless actions I know.
I plead, begging you, “Release me, Lord, release me! May you not destroy me with my lawless actions; nor holding a grudge into eternity, keep my evil in mind, nor condemn me in the lowest parts of the earth, because you are the Lord, the God of those who repent.
And in me you display your goodness; for unworthy though I am, you will save me according to your abundant compassion.
And I praise you through all the days of my life because all the host of heaven are singing praises to you, and yours is the glory forever. Amen.
The song of our fathers.
Manasseh king of Judah dies (; )
Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.
Manasseh rested with his fathers, and he was buried in his own house. His son Amon became king in his place.
Manasseh’s Legacy (,
I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
Hezekiah fathered Manasseh, Manasseh fathered Amon, Amon fathered Josiah,